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St. Landry democrat., 1887-08-27

the race included then, as now,
sail around Sandy Hook lightship.
In that ancient time of American
yachting the sport was as now an
exclusive pastime of the very rich;
but fortunes had not then become so
colossal as they are to-day, and the
yachts were correspondingly modest.
The largest boat at the organization of
the club was the Cygnet, owned by Will
liam Edgar, which measured forty-tive
tons. Yachts of twice that measurement
are common nowadays, and many of the
noted craft are three and four times as
great, judged by the same standard. The
Mayfower, for instance, measures 10
tons, the Puritan 105, the Atlantic 10S,
and the Priscilla ia. The ancient
America, built for special purpose
Ito beat anything in the world), not
many years after the formation of the
New York Yacht Club, measures 1865
tons. 1t costs pretty nearly as much to
St. Landry democrat., 1887-08-27

esting to state that the queer word yacht
is from the Dutch and shows the historic
origin of the aristocratic sport. The Or
iginal form of the word was 'jagt,"
and it was applied by the Dutch to
a class of vessels built for speed in order
to clear the seas of pirates and smugglers.
The Dutch model remained in vogue
until the beginning of this century, when
the Americans began to develop the
models that eventually became the basis
for the splendid clippers that were the
pride of our marine The advantages of
the sharper PROV were soon seen in Eng
land and the new model was taken up
there and developed. The English have
stuck to it ever since, and for more rea-
sons than one. Perhaps the most i'm
portant in its bearing upon the models
of yachts is the system the clubs
there have of measuring different
boats to determine how much start
one shall allow another The plan
they adopted for this was very
complex, but in brief it graded the size of
boats according to the breadth of beam
that is the width of the craft at the
widest part 1t was an object, therefore,
for the builders to so construct their
boats that they should have to allow as
little time as possible to their rivals.
They narrowed them and sunk them
deep in the water, thus getting as
large an actual bulk as they desired
without compromising to the same
degree their position among rivals. So
that a boat with narrow breadth of
beam passed in yachting rules for con-
siderably smaller than she really was.
But in America, after discovering the
superiority of the sharp prows over the
blunt and developing the new model to
high degree of excellence, the builders
found that the shallow model was in
some respects at least superior to the
other, and they paid their attention to
perfecting it. Shallow sloOps for a good
many years have been on substantially
the same model that is now used. The
Improvements have been in the line of
St. Landry democrat., 1887-08-27

ting of the best models for speed. But
although many remarkably good boats
were built during this period it was not
until after the war that yachting was
recognized as an organized sport, and
that annual regattas became feature of
summer life all along the seaboard.
There are now seventy-five yacht clubs
in the country, twenty-five of which are
in New York and ten in Boston. Nearly
1900 yachts are registered in these clubs,
and it is believed that several times as
many more are floating about in bays
and streams that are not attached to any
association.
1t is not alone the cost of yachts that
indicates the aristocracy of the sport.
Rich men 60 to immense expense to build
speedy vessels and pay hundreds of dol
lars a month to run them, and get in re-
turn simply the sport, and possibly
handsome cup whose value to them lies
solely in that it testities to the success of
their craft. Other rich men spend a
SOOi uSdl Va uloIioy IA Sol'i' oeiitS "iAU
improving the breed of horses, and at
the outset it would appear that they have
the same enthusiasm in it that the yachts
men have in their fancy; but the horse
owner enters his steeds in a race for
money, and is not altogether satisfied if
he does not get good return for his
investment in the shape of large money
prizes. The yachtsman rarely sails for
a money prize. The emblems of victory
in regatta are cups. When the Cor
onet and Dauntless sailed their famous
race across the Atlantic last spring, there
was big money prize to be won, but it
was in the guise of wager. A vast
amount of money changes hands every
year between the owners Of yachts on the
results OF contests, but the money won is
always on wager. The boats do not sail
for money, and considering the fact that
so few yachts can be sold at profit, it is
safe to say that no yachtsman enters into
the sport from commercial incentive
He expects to spend money for his fun
St. Landry democrat., 1887-08-27
BAB'S GOSSIP.
FROZEN FERNS AS A HOT WEATHER
DINNER-TABLE DECORATION.
The Value of Delicatessen to the Lady
Who Lives in a New York FIat-Table
Dainties That Produce Gastronomic De-
light-Hints About the Latest Fashions.

For summer dinner table decoration
hostesses have just now an absolutely
square block of ice in which is frozen the
finest of ferns. The ice is placed on a
silver plate made for the purpose and
the slight amount of water that drips
from it falls, as it would in butter dish,
in the bowl underneath. The idea is not
entirely new, as the fashionable soda and
icecream places were made to look cool
by just such blocks, but their reception
in the inner circles of swelldom only dates
from the jubilee, when some great dinner
had the ice decoration. We are all more
civilized than to have very high centre
pieces, and all last season the flowers
were arranged in low baskets or dishes
so that one could see ones opposite
neighbor, and now it is probable that the
coming winter will witness the more
general use of the iced ferns, because, of
course, it will then be possible to count
upon the solidity being preserved for
some time. The Crystalline blocks are
prepared by some special people, just as
the frozen carafes are, so that the house
keeper need have no care about them.
Bv the bye, how much giver of din
ners can save herself if she understands.
the knowing how means SO much in
giving dinner, when a chef, a butler
and good corps of servants are not at
ones command. To the mistress Of
small domicile, who likes to enter
tain a few friends, the value of the for
eign deyicatessen is much; in these shops
fine dishes are sold in small quantities.
You wish to have with broiled chicken
o Whole ' @ Ser YET WeH you o0 1 can T 5a
St. Landry democrat., 1887-08-27

there as many slices as you desire,
beautifully cooked, pink and thinly cut
as cOnnoisseur would wish; with your
lettuce YOU want some good cheese
the smallest quantity can be gotten here;
while if YOU have no stove and wish to
give little supper not limited to timed
things and salads, then you may get a
whole chicken, part of turkey or what
ever you prefer to make your piece de
resistance.
The best of the dezicatessens in New
York CITY are to be found on Sixth
avenue or down in the French quar-
ter-Bleecker street or about there
and only the housekeepers who really
know how to market are acquainted
with them. Flasks of rich cordials and
Rqueurs, bottles of good wine and fine oil,
olives and pates, the best cheeses that
convince one that Brillat-Savarin knew
much when he said, "a dinner without
cheese is like beautiful woman with
only one eye" Sausages that are ro-
mantle and fine sweetmeats never seen
anywhere else are found here. The pro-
prietor is generally foreigner, and he
takes delight in making known to the
buyer some bonnie 60uc7ae that she has
never tasted before. Famous dinner
givers like Sam Ward, Samuel J. Tilden
and many another sought out for the de-
location of their friends the tid-bits to be
gotten in these places.
The smart girl going to the seashore,
or the mountains, or wherever negltge
get-up may be in place, has made to wear
with kilt skirt of bright stripes an
easy shirt of pongee and then "blazer,'
which, as every one knows. is the short
loose coat of striped flannel worn by
athletic young men. The skirt may be
made by a dressmaker or at home, but
the shirt and the "blazer" must be the
handiwork of the tailor of the swell ath-
letic club of whatever city the .faire ladye
may honor by her presence. In New York
small tailor shop where tennis racquets,
balls and nets are sold, just opposite the
Racquet Club, has received the favor of
the gay damsel, and the little shop woke
up Gf shop ever sleeps one morning
and found itself famous. The iaunty
hat needs to be soft felt one with the
brim bent to suit the face, and the deco
rations either plume or wings, as may
be deemed most becoming.
In place of lisse the finest folds for
the throat and wrists are made of boiling
cloth, mauve, pale blue, a5sinthe and
rose; all the colorsworn are noted In this
dainty finish. Bah
St. Landry democrat., 1887-08-27

build frst-rate sloop for yachting pur-
poses as it does steamer for the same
object, the length in each case being the
same; and the cost of maintaining sloop
through season cannot be less than the
cost of running steam yacht. Nothing
is spent for fuel, it is true, but there has
to be crew Of twenty to thirty men on
big sloop as compared to dozen at the
most on steam yacht twice as large.
As in steam yachts, tits the finishing and
appointments of sailing boat that cost.
And the difficulty Of selling sailboat
for anything like the original cost is
nearly as great, and for the same reasons.
1t is fashionable to have your own boat
built according to your specifications,
and quite questionable to own second
hand craft. This does not apply strictly
to the smaller craft of this class, for
many men of only moderate means find it
possible to get little boat, and as it is not
fashionable to have little boats, the prices
are affected only by the ordinary laws OF
supply and demand and the cupidity OF
the dealers The real sport of yachting,
that which is talked about and which in
cites great international contests, is
strictly aristocratic. A fortune can be
spent in decorating and making comfort
able a boat whose hull cost only few
thousand dollars. The hull of all ordi-
nary schooner, considered as to its size,
can be obtained for about $4,000 A
Yacht of the same size will not cost any
more, so far as the hull is concerned, but
when it comes to making the craft
pleasure boat or brick sloop, the ulti-
mate cost is nowhere near together. A
pleasure boat of any kind that carries
sill. even a catboat, indicates a good
deal Of money in the pockets OF the
owner or else wild extravaganza.
Yachts had been known in American
waters for great many years prior to
the first organization Of the sport in
New York. During the golden days OF
American boat building, when clipper
ships were sent from the New England
yards that beat the world, there was a
widespread interest among rich men in
the problems that underlie the construc-
St. Landry democrat., 1887-08-27

and the improvement of models, and if
he wagers incidentally, it is no more than
he would do on events in which he had
little or no pecuniary interest.
The great success achieved during the
last few years by American-built yachts
has stimulated reasonable pride in the
nautical talent of this country, and with
it has been naturally developed the idea
that the superiority of our boats has
been due to ingenious and novel i'm
provements on old models. To very
limited extent this is true, but on the
whole it is proper to say that nothing
new has been discovered in boat build
ing during this generation. Everybody,
even the inland schoolboy, knows that
the Puritan, Priscilla, Mayfower and
Atlantic represented the fat-bottomed
model, the "skimming dish,'' as opposed
to the Genesta and the Galatea and
the coming Thistle, which rep
resent the cutter style, or that
class of boat that is as different
as possible from the shallow skimming
dish model. The cutter is narrow and
sinks deep into the water, and its keel is
deep set. The American sloop, on the
contrary, rests lightly on the water, and
although it has keel, the means Of Sc
curing resistance to the force of the ele-
ments brought about by the cutters keel
is effected by barn door called a centre
board let down through the keel. And
every American, except possibly few
Anglomaniacs here in New York, has be-
come profoundly persuaded that there is
no comparison between the merits OF the
deep cutter and the shallow sloop. The
sloop is looked upon as distinctively
American institution. But it is an odd
fact that at the beginning Of this century
the two nations occupied exactly opposite
positions upon the model question. The
whole world, England included, frankly
admits that the first improvements on
models for ships came from America
And it was America that first discarded
the old-fashioned Dutch model of fiat
bottomed, blunt-prowed boats that had
been the accepted standard for more than
100 years. Right here it may be inter-
St. Landry democrat., 1887-08-27

An amusing incident took place recently
in England at a meeting to support the can
sentation of Brixon. Lord Carmarthen's
very youthful appearance had prompted a
good many personal illusions during the
campaign, and at the meeting referred to he
was interrupted in the middle Of speech by
costermongerr, who -! shouted, Does your
boyish candidate, my mother does know
I'm OUT and then screaming at the top of
his voice. land on Tuesday she will know
Pm in." Whether this was "a carefully pre-
pared impromptu" or not it took the hearts
of the crowd by storm.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-08-27

very fine points that only theorist
like Burgess, the designer of the
famous Boston sloops, can thoroughly
understand A very slight difference in
the curve of the vessels prov may make
an appreciate difference in the ease with
which she will divide the waves. Afoot
or two added to the length may make it
possible to carry greater proportion of
sail. tits in such problems as these that
the designers of late years have delved
deeper than their predecessors, and it is
possible that there yet remain many such
fine considerations to be settled before
the boat shall have been built which is
capable of the highest speed.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-08-27
DINNER.
DINNER.
Curry Rice Soup.
Baked Pickerel and Mashed Potatoes.
Stewed Chops.
Green Peas. String Beans.
Lettuce Salad,

Green Peas. String Beans.
Lettuce Salad.
Peach Ice Cream.
CURRY RICE SoUP.-One cup of rice, one
tablespoonful of curry powder, two quarts
of soup stock, mutton, chicken or veal. half
an onion minced fine, two tablespoonful
minced parsley, salt to taste; boil the rice
tender in the stock when the latter has
cooked fifteen minutes with the minced
onion in it; add the parsley, salt and curry;
simmer twenty minutes and turn out. 1t
should be quite thick with the rice.
BAKED P1cKEREL.-Clean a fine pickerel
without removing the head, lay it in drip
boiling water in which has been melted
great spoonful of butter; cover with another
pan and cook half an hour; haste plenti-
fully with the butter and water and cook IN
covered, basting often, fifteen minutes or
longer, or until tender; transfer to a hot
by beating together tablespoonful of but
ter. one of finely minced parsley and two
tablespoonful Of anchovy paste. Garnish
with sliced lemon, and send around mashed
potatoes with it.
STEwED CHoPs.-Broil the chops and let
them get cold. Put into a saucepan with g.
tablespoonful of minced onions and two of
cold water. Bring slowly to the boil. At
the end of an hour add cupful of hot broth
(made from the trimmings of chops, sea-
soned with pepper, salt, pinch OF cloves
and chopped parsley. Cover again, set the
saucepan directly on the range and stew
gently until the chops are tender. Lay them
on hot dish; strain the gravy, thicken with
Drowned -four, stir in good teaspoonful of
currant jelly, boil one minute and pour over
the chops. A few mushrooms improve this
dish. Tough ungainly mutton chops NAV
be made tender and palatable by this process.
STRING BEANs.-Cut the strings from both
sides of the beans, top and tail them and cut
in two-inch lengths. Few cooks perform
this task properly. If it were always well
done, beans would be favorite dish with
many, who now do not care for it." Put
over the fire in boiling, sailed water and cook
forty minutes if the beans are young and
tender, longer if they are not Drain, stir
good piece of butter through them, pepper
and salt to taste. Send around vinegar with
%hem for such as like it.
PEACH Ice CREAM-One quart of rich
cream, one pint of milk, two and half cups
of sugar, one quart of peeled and minced
peaches. Sweeten the cream with two cups
of sugar, mix with the milk and freeze.
When half frozen stir in the peaches over
which you have strewed the remaining cup
of sugar. Turn the freezer crank until the
mixture is firm; pack IN finely pounded ice
and rock salt until you are ready for it. Wrap
towel dipped in boiling water around the
freezer and turn out.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-08-27
LUNCHEON.
RissOles.
Cucumber Salad.
II
Bread. Butter. Olives.
Warm Gingerbread.
Iced Milk.

Iced Milk.
R1ssoLEs-Mince cold veal or chicken,
season with pepper and salt, roll out good
pie crust, as for tarts, cut into squares or OBJ
longs, as for turn-overs, put tablespoonful
of the seasoned meat in the centre of each,
brush the edges with white of egg, and make
into neat roll enveloping the meat Pinch
the edges of the paste firmly together; bake
in quick oven. When brown wash over with
beaten egg, leave in the oven for minute to
glaze and serve hot. These are nice made
of cold calf's liver.
CUCUMBER SALAD.-Peel and slice the Gu
cumbers and leave in ice water for an hour,
drain, slice an onion and lay in cold dish
alternately with the cucumbers, and season
with vinegar, pepper and salt.
RUsK.-One quart of -four, one cup of
sugar, half cup of butter half yeast cake,
dissolved in warm water, one teaspoonful of
salt, two eggs. Sift -four and salt together,
pour in milk and yeast, and let rise four or
five hours before adding the beaten eggs,
sugar and butter. Work these in well and
make into small rolls; set closely together
in pan. Throw cloth over them and let
them stand until light. Bake in steady
top with white of egg in which little sugar
has been stirred.
WARM observation-disclosures cup each of
sugar, molasses, butter and "loppered' milk
or cream four and half cups of flour, one
teaspoonful of Soda sifted twice with the
flour, one tablespoonful of ginger, one tea
spoonful of mixed mace and cinnamon,
three eggs; beat together molasses, sugar,
butter and spices until they are very light
put in the milk, beaten eggs and finally
flour. Stir vigorously for five minutes and
bake in card Break instead of cutting
it and eat with ICED milk as an accompani-
ment.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-08-27
TIPS AND POINTERS.
LITERARY NOTE.

LITERARY NOTE.
Miss Constance Fenimore Woolson is
spending the summer at Florence, at the
Villa Brichieri place referred to by Mrs.
Browning in aurora Leigh" It is said
that in the house adjoining Hawthorne
wrote part of the Marble Faun" So if
Miss Woolson's literary effort does not come
up to Hawthorne's standard, it will be the
next thing to it.
IS THIS THE CAUSE?
A correspondent writes to ask what causes
stringency in the money market. Various
things, but the following announcement
clipped from one of our contemporaries may
furnish some information: Emma Abbott
has gone to Paris to purchase new operate
attractions from Worth"
MENDING HIS FORTUNE.
Miss Singer, the millionaire daughter of
the original Singer of the sewing machines
and stepdaughter of the Due de Campo
Selice, is about to be married to the Prince
de scey Montbeliard, a scion of an ancient
house, who will now be able to patch up the
rents in his fortune.
A CANDID CONFESSION.
81. Haggard," cries Howells,
In MS caustlc aVoWalS,
'1s no author at all I can see;
There, in fact, don't exist
A profound novelist
Unless-pardon grammar-its me-"
MERELY A PRESENT.
Two-thirds of the enormous loan required
for the Panama canal have been subscribed.
M de Lesseps concludes his remarks upon
the subject by a phrase that must sound
ominous to the shareholders-"It will do
very well for the presentP'
BoULANGER's DAUGHTER.
General Boulanger's daughter is about to
become nun, and his enemies say it is a
shrewd device of his to curry favor with the
clericals This may work very well with the
daughter. but the clericals will have nun of
him.
GEORGES ORGAN.
The inquiry has been made, What is Henry
Georges political organ? John McMackin
answers, Henry Georges political organ?
I-sir-for am his organizer"
THE srNEws OF WAR.
How the willy Russ must dread it
When the German hurts his credit!
As the willy Teuton chancellor attacks the
angry Gar;
For he knows the way to euchre
Is to cripple Russian lucre.
TITS the heel of this Achilles to disable him
in war.
IT WOULDN'T DO.
The Postofice Department has very SEN
sibly refused to name Nebraska postofice
"Old Maid"
Good for the P. O. D.. think of the COM
plications which might arise from lover
addressing his sweetheart with-Miss Sally
Blank, Old Maid, New.
ENCORE.
The tuneful Patti comes again,
In vain tits estimated,
How many times farewell tour
Can be reduplicated.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-08-27
Preparjng for the BURGLAR.

Mr.. Poots-Where is that burglar Maria?
Where is he? Where's the villain gone?
Mrs. Poots-Gone to the station-h house.
Oh, dear, Pm so distracted. A policeman
came and took him. Oh, John, why did
you leave lie all alone when the alarm rung
and run into the garrett?
why did run into the garnet? l keep
my arms in the garnet, that's why"
''But you've been gone an hour
'"Took over an hour to oil up my gun and
grind up my Ratchet. But it's lucky for the
burglar that my arms were not in order. y
TEXAS SiftinQs
St. Landry democrat., 1887-08-27
Came to See About it.

Young Hus and (meeting his wife at the
railway station)-Didn't l telegraph you not
to bring your mother with you?
Young Wife, know. That's what she
has come to see you about She read the
telegram
St. Landry democrat., 1887-08-27
CHICAGo's FAME.

CHICAGo's FAME.
Boston Schoolmarm-Waldo, where is
Chicago?
Boston Schoolboy-In Illinois, ma'am.
Boston Schoolmarm-What is it noted
for?
Boston Schoolboy-That is where we
bought Mike Kelly.